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					<h1>News</h1>
					<p><strong>2006.11.13 — </strong>v1.02 released. Mostly just bug fixes in this release.</p>
					<p><strong>2006.10.22 — </strong>v1.01 released. Major new features include a GUI for the upload utility, a new C4D turntable plugin, automatic filename verification, and more!</p>
					<h1>Gimme the Files!</h1>
					<p><a href="release/wickddcli-osx-1.01.dmg"><img src="bitmaps/download-osx.png" alt="Download current OS X version" height="40" width="200" border="0"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
					<a href="release/wickddcli-win-1.01.exe"><img src="bitmaps/download-win.png" alt="Download current Windows version" height="40" width="200" border="0"></a></p>
					<h1>Tell Me What WickDD Is First!</h1>
					<p>The Wick Digital Dailies project is a system of programs for automating the uploading and downloading of daily production of digital media files within a visual effects group.</p>
					<p>The WickDD system is composed of several cooperating programs:</p>
					<h3>CINEMA 4D Plugins</h3>
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						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#c4d_upload_plugin">WickDD Upload</a></strong>: collects the scene file, any textures and project info for slate, and uploads everything to your team's directory on an SFTP server (using wickddup).</p>
						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#c4d_texversion_plugin">WickDD New Texture Version</a></strong>: increments the filename of a selected texture file and relinks the new texture within all materials, optionally opens an editing application to modify texture.</p>
						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#c4d_texversion_plugin">WickDD Turntable</a></strong>: create any of several sorts of turntable animations with just a click or two</p>
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					<h3>Standalone Client-side tools</h3>
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						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#wickddup">wickddup</a></strong>: uploads files to an SFTP server</p>
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					<h3>Server-side tools</h3>
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						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#wickddrss">wickddrss</a></strong>: indexes a specified hierarchy and generates an RSS file</p>
						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#c4drender">c4drender</a></strong>: distributes C4D files in a specified hierarchy to a render farm, renders them on the farm, and returns the rendered movies to a file or web server</p>
						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#slategen">slategen</a></strong>: creates a slate TIFF file from info collected by either the WickDD Upload plugin, or wickddup.</p>
						<p><strong><a href="userdoc.html#wickqtassy">wickqtassy</a></strong>: assembles TIFF files created by slategen and c4drender into an H.264 QuickTime movie</p>
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					<p>Here is a graphical overview of how these programs cooperate to form the Wick Digital Dailies system:</p>
					<p align="center"><img src="bitmaps/data-flow.png" alt="" height="461" width="546" border="0"></p>
					<h1>Known Bugs and Limitations</h1>
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						<li type="disc"><a href="userdoc.html#c4d_texversion_plugin">WickDD New Texture plugin</a> cannot yet launch BodyPaint after updating the texture version
						<li type="disc">The C4D plugins can only see textures used directly linked from within a material channel. If they are used indirectly, such as within a shader, the COFFEE language doesn't let us see them.
						<li type="disc">The only asset linked from a scene that the <a href="userdoc.html#c4d_upload_plugin">WickDD Upload plugin</a> understands are textures. Other assets, such as sounds, will not be uploaded.
						<li type="disc">Windows version of <a href="userdoc.html#wickddup">wickddup</a> doesn't always exit absolutely cleanly (this is almost certainly of no practical consequence...just something we'd like to fix for pickiness reasons)
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